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UPC-590L-M Up-Converter Installation and Operation

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Author:

Whitham D. Reeve

Revision:

0.0 (Original draft started, 19 Dec 2020)

0.1 (Updated block diagrams, 19 Sep 2021)

0.2 (Highlighted images to be replaced, 21 Sep 2021)

0.3 (Updated IF frequencies to match -M oscillator, 27 Jan 2022)

0.4 (Replaced all images with current, 28 Jan 2022)

Summary of Contents for UPC-590L-M

Page 1: ...the LWA Power Coupler and Callisto instruments Because the LWA Antenna has built in front end electronics with low noise figure and high gain the UPC 590L M has no RF input preamplification The UPC 59...

Page 2: ...h quality It is recommended that ferrite beads be placed on the power supply lead at both the Converter end and power supply end Clamshell beads will allow several windings of the power leads to be wr...

Page 3: ...listo exe 4 Open the Frequency Genie software tool and load the spectral overview from step 3 5 For the UPC 590 up converter setup Frequency Genie as follows Channel selection method Minimum detection...

Page 4: ...not critical but must be different for each polarization 10 Edit scheduler cfg for the desired observing schedule 11 Open callisto exe It will automatically load the new frequency file 12 If callisto...

Page 5: ...eated five times to allow the tuner synthesizer to stabilize when starting a new sweep The amount of repetition is set by the nonlinchans parameter in params cfg file of the Frequency Genie Spectrum p...

Page 6: ...pe N female Input voltage 12 Vdc Input current 120 mA maximum Input power connector 2 1x5 5 mm coaxial jack center positive Gain 22 dB with internal 20 dB attenuator in each channel Dimensions 168 mm...

Page 7: ...lying or removing power from either unit Maintenance The Converter requires very little periodic maintenance Converter maintenance described below should be performed when performing regular maintenan...

Page 8: ...ions docx Page 8 Document information Author Whitham D Reeve Copyright 2022 W Reeve Revision 0 0 Original draft started 19 Dec 2020 0 1 Updated block diagrams 19 Sep 2021 0 2 Highlighted images to be...